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That’s an impressive and thoughtfully structured system, especially at that scale. The use of symlinks and a separate version-controlled notes repository makes a lot of sense for long-term archival. I’m curious — when working with such a large collection, how do you typically rediscover material or connect related ideas across different parts of the hierarchy? Do you rely primarily on directory structure, full-text s…
It's mostly navigating the PDF directories or notes repository, full-text search of my notes, or (less frequently) searching Zotero for bibliographic data. I don't use tagging for this and I'll address full-text search of the documents in a bit. I can't say that either direct navigation or text search of the notes is dominant as I do a lot of both. Having multiple ways to find information is good for redundancy as if…
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Why can’t a recommendation engine do that?
Have you been living under the rock for the past 10 years? Haven't you seen what happens with recommendation engines over time?
I don't see why you can't have an algorithm that's aware of your interests and attempts to show you novel things tangentially related to them.
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Why can’t a recommendation engine do that?
Have you been living under the rock for the past 10 years? Haven't you seen what happens with recommendation engines over time?
You can just explain why a recommendation engine is unable to help you discover new things you didn’t know you wanted to know and try to help me understand better.
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